topic Re: contentstore.deleted files not deleting in Alfresco Archive

contentstore.deleted files not deleting

kamal1387 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:29:46 GMT

We have deleted some files from alfresco community 3.4 ,The files have moved to contentstore.deleted folder , but when will they get deleted from that folder?Also the alf_node has those nodes with node_delete property as true , when will those rows get removed ?

Re: contentstore.deleted files not deleting

janv — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:46:29 GMT

Please refer to: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Store_Configuration#Deleting_Files

Regards,
Jan

Re: contentstore.deleted files not deleting

kamal1387 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:57:25 GMT

I did not get how to purge ? Does this get called automatically

Re: contentstore.deleted files not deleting

loftux — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:51:21 GMT

I did not get how to purge ? Does this get called automatically

Files in contentstore.deleted stay there until you delete them manually.
For Linux you can use

find /opt/alfresco/alf_data/contentstore.deleted -mtime +30 -name '*bin' |xargs rm
find /opt/alfresco/alf_data/contentstore.deleted -type d -empty |xargs rm‍‍

Change +30 to the number of days you want to keep docs as an extra safety measure.
Folders will be deleted when empty. That means that parent folders will not be deleted until there is no child folders. Each run will eventually completely remove folder.
Make this a script and rund with cron.

If you for some odd reason run windows :wink: you will have to create a bat or power shell file for the same task.